SAN FRANCISCO - For the four elephants living just south of Sacramento at the home of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, l...

Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has welcomed lawyer-errant Norbert Seifert back after his 2 1/2-year term as corpo...

San Jose-based networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. has acquired privately held Komodo Technology Inc. in a stock-for-stock tra...

Minneapolis-based Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi has recruited four attorneys for its California offices. Cynthia LeBow joi...

An attorney who wants new lawyers in large firms to feel the same excitement, challenge and pleasure he gets from his work sha...

The disparate practice areas of new partners at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips illustrate a theme chief executive a...

DNA tests now have led to the exoneration of several dozen wrongly convicted people around the country - often years after a j...

Two power producers, Indeck Capital Inc. and Black Hills Energy Capital, have merged in a transaction of an undisclosed value....

ReplayTV Inc. has gone public with an initial public offering valued at $119 million. The Menlo Park company develops personal...

Los Angeles-based Weston Benshoof is known for pursuing Internet start-ups, but they also are setting their sights on the boom...

By Jeffrey A. Lowe. "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal clas...

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has recruited former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney Noran J. Camp as of counsel f...

Sacramento's Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer has recruited associate Ralph R. Nevis III for its litigation department. Nevis...

Irvine-based Magellan Software Inc. has merged with and taken the name of Hamburg, Germany's Gauss Interprise. The combined ca...

NEWPORT BEACH - A few months ago, facing down rumors of impending bankruptcy, Edwards Theater Circuit Inc. touted its business...

SANTA ANA - Former Encino-based lawyer Robert Fenton was sentenced Friday to 16 months in state prison for his role in a $5 m...

SACRAMENTO - As California reforms its public school system, it can expect lawsuits to be filed in response. That was the mess...

One federal judge in Los Angeles plans to continue a jury trial this week, despite a request from court officials to suspend p...

Three activists who were arrested earlier in the week when they attempted to unfurl a huge banner from the top of the Hotel Fi...

Long time Fullerton city attorney Rector Kerr Fox III has lost a six-year battle with cancer. Fox died Aug. 4 at Gordon Lane C...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the city of Los Angeles not to conduct zoning, fire or building code violation searches of a...

Drag out those foam sponge donkey caps this week - here come the Dems for what is expected to be an uneventful convention stag...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a mixed victory for employees, a federal appellate panel ruled Thursday that employers have no obligation t...

If Joe Fernandez does get a second chance, it will come too late to help his wife, who died of cancer while he was held withou...

The Los Angeles City Council Friday rejected a call for the police department to follow the law when handling protests during ...

Dear Democratic National Convention delegates and protesters of all stripes: Welcome to Los Angeles, home of the world's large...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Port of Oakland's failure to make sure the public had a chance to comment on a plan to clean up thousands ...

Renowned Hollywood cinematographer Donald Peterman, whose credits include the feature films "Men In Black," "Splash" and "Coco...

The Catholic Church holds the moral view that the unitive (love) and procreative (family) aspects of human sexuality cannot be...

Despite the presence of sympathetic members of the plaintiff's family and the use of a high-profile tire expert, defense couns...